Diets Make You Fat! Anyone who has dieted more than once knows this and it is huge dilemma.
Dr. Dukan in his new book ‘The Dukan Diet’ talks about the problem. He believes, from his experience with patients, that fat cells double when someone reaches a BMI of about 28. You then have twice as many hungry fat cells as you had before! Of course if your mother let you get fat as a child you may already have additional fat cell ready to be filled when the opportunity arises. Don’t blame Mom she was just feeding you the way she was told to. Plump babies were considered to be healthy and thriving. So maybe you were a bonny bouncing baby!
There is a physiological reason why diets can make you fat that is well known from studies on starvation. Animals starved or severely deprived of food will overeat for the rest of their lives. People do too. Studies on concentration camp survivors found that many of them were unable to maintain a healthy weight ever again.
The body is trying to protect itself against another famine. It doesn’t just make you hungry all the time it also becomes super efficient at extracting every last speck of nourishment from the food you eat. Once you reach a certain weight – and its not all that heavy, your fat cells divide and double their numbers. Each of these cells is like a sponge absorbing fat as fast as it can retrieve it from your food. So of course diets make you fat!
But I am not writing this to be depressing or to make you think that there is no hope for you! I have to tell you that it seems that Dukan has made a huge contribution to solving this dieting problem. I will post about his new diet in my next post.
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